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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: RUCKELSHAUS CENTER, MICHAEL KERN AND PHYLLIS SHULMAN
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The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . Michael started his career at a nonprofit in Seattle called the NW Renewable Resources Center, which was one of the pioneers of the field of multiparty natural resource mediation/facilitation. Many of the important leaders discussed during this project were on the Board or staff. After getting an MPA at UW, he mediated the Hanford Openness Workshops, directed an effort to reform sa…
Directors & creators
Interviewee(s): Michael Kern and Phyllis Shulman, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters
Subjects
Collaborative Governance, NW Renewable Resources Center, UW/WSU William D. Ruckelshaus Center, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State
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